If you think grad students are the only ones who get to do real research at Baylor, you're wrong. Just one way Baylor undergrads get hands-on experience: at Baylor College of Medicine's summer programs.

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Baylor's Dr. Michael Attas is definitely a jack of all trades -- and a master of all! As a cardiologist, he’s provided life-saving treatment and care to thousands of Central Texans, including many Baylor professors, administrators and staff members. He helped establish Medical Humanities at Baylor. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church and serves as a voice for the role of faith and ethics in medicine. And, he literally wrote the book on faith and fly fishing.

When he was 17, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records to enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis. When he was 19, he single-handedly turned back the German Army by climbing on top of a tank with a machine gun, a moment immortalized in the classic film "To Hell and Back," starring Audie himself. Baylor professor David A. Smith writes the first biography covering his entire life—including his severe PTSD and his tragic death at age 45—in "The Price of Valor."

Not once, not twice, but three times has this Baylor Bear received a national award for her research on groundwater. For the third time in six years, Baylor doctoral candidate Stephanie Wong won the Farvolden Award from the National Groundwater Association for her studies. #SicEm!